Industry Insight

Last week, I explored the SIP Trunking market and started to explain the benefits of SIP Trunking.   Enterprise IT cost savings, as explained last week, is a key driver.

There are also savings on calls, especially long distance calls.  There might be IP to IP calls via a service like Skype so there are no long distance charges at all, or there might be IP to PSTN calls, where the move to the PSTN occurs locally so it’s only a local call. 

Video calling is becoming more prevalent.  Obviously, smartphones have played a huge role here.  There are analyst reports regarding millennials increasing their usage of video calls.  WhatsApp allows video calls, and as of May 2017 subscribers were making 55 million video calls per day. 

There are quite a few debates about where a business Unified Communication solution should physically be located.  Should it be customer premise equipment (CPE) or should it be in the cloud? 

But what is right for your neighbor might not necessarily be right for you. 

After approximately 13 years and over 650 Tuesday morning blogs for Dialogic (and actually one last Thursday and this past Sunday), this is my last one (for Dialogic).  I was writing monthly articles for Internet Telephony for years prior to my blogging and then I switched to also writing blogs around that time and posting them on tmcnet.com.  Everyone told me to get to a consistent posting pattern to have the best chance of your blog getting more readers.  Of course writing about interesting topics might help. 

As part of Intel in the late 1990’s the Dialogic division saw a window into the incredible processing power of the forthcoming Intel CPUs and decided to port the media processing DSP functions such as echo cancel, play/record, codec creation, conferencing and speech processing, to name a few, to the Intel processor.   In those New Jersey labs on Route 10, the software media server was born.  These functions were running on a host based server and our incredible marketing department at the time came up with the term Host Media Processing (HMP).   It stuck.